Mansfield, IL
Photo: Erwin Bosman / Pexels
- Purpose
- eggs
- Egg color
- white
- Eggs / year
- ~280
- Hen weight
- ~4.5 lbs
- Cold hardy
- No
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- active, flighty, wary
- Forages
- excellent
- Broodiness
- low
- APA class
- Mediterranean
- NPIP stock code
- R666
- Origin
- Italy
Breed guide
Leghorn
Also known as: White Leghorn, Brown Leghorn, Livorno
Italian breed behind most of the world's commercial white-egg production. The birds are light in the body and eat little for the eggs they return. White and Light Brown lead a long list of varieties. Hens almost never go broody.
Keeper's notes
The large single comb and wattles frostbite in hard cold, so smear on petroleum jelly when it freezes. Mild coastal winters seldom call for it. They fly well, so fence tall.
From the 1910 Standard of Perfection
Class: Mediterranean
“Leghorns, being essentially a breed of comparatively small size, of great alertness and of graceful curves, should be bred strictly on these lines.”
Disqualifications: White variety: red covering more than one-half the surface of ear-lobes in cockerels and pullets; feathers other than white in any part of plumage; shanks other than yellow.
APA recognized varieties
Mediterranean · American Standard of Perfection, 2010 list
Single Comb Black 1874Single Comb Dark Brown 1874Single Comb Light Brown 1874Single Comb White 1874Rose Comb Dark Brown 1883Rose Comb Light Brown 1883Rose Comb White 1886Single Comb Buff 1894Single Comb Silver 1894Single Comb Black Tailed Red 1929Single Comb Columbian 1929Single Comb Red 1929Rose Comb Black 1981Rose Comb Buff 1981Rose Comb Silver 1981Single Comb Golden 1981
Leghorn listings
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Where to find Leghorn
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Regional breeders with this breed on file (92)
Spring Valley, IL
Chebanse, IL
Pekin, IL
Peotone, IL
Sterling, IL
Fayetteville, IL
Evansville, IL
IL
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Regional hatcheries that carry it (12)
Johnston City, IL
Ashland, OH
Mt Gilead, OH
OH
Polk, OH
Sugarcreed, OH
Sugarcreek, OH
Fresno, OH
Cincinnati, OH
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Sourced from NPIP state directories, matched by the stock codes each participant registers. A flock may keep breeds beyond what it registers, so this list runs conservative.
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